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Chapter 20 Displaying Status Information
Annex Manager User Guide
Part 4 Control and Status Commands
• Information about devices that are not Annexes. If you use the
Verbose Output
option from the Utilities menu,
Discover Annexes/
Search Device
lists the names of all devices that are not
Annexes, and prints a brief description or identifies devices as
NOT REACHABLE
.
If you enter a short
SNMP Timeout
,
Discover Annexes/
Search Device
may identify a device as
NOT REACHABLE
because of network load.
• The
*** End of discovery ***
message, informing you that the
process is complete.
Using Push Buttons
Discover Annexes/Search Device
uses the following push buttons:
• activates the
Discover Annexes/Search Device
command.
• replaces the Annex list displayed in the main window
with the Annexes displayed in the
Discovery Output
box. When
you use this button, Annex Manager connects each Annex
again, in case there was a change in status.
• saves the Annexes displayed in the
Discovery Output
box to a file. When you use this button, the standard
File
selection
window displays, allowing you to enter a path and file
name.
stores the values you entered in
SNMP Timeout
and
SNMP Retries
with each Annex name. In addition,
it stores the Annex Manager default community string.
If you want to save a list and then change these values,
use the
SNMP Information
command (see Chapter 4,
Using the Main Window).
• displays the standard
File Selection
window, which
includes the default text directory. You can enter a file name in
the
Selection
field and press to store the contents of
both boxes, or press to return to the
Discover
Annexes/Search Device
window.
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Save List
Save Output
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